The Apache Software Foundation takes a very active stance in eliminating
security problems and denial of service attacks against Apache CouchDB.

We strongly encourage folks to report such problems to our private security
mailing list first, before disclosing them in a public forum.

Please note that the security mailing list should only be used for reporting
undisclosed security vulnerabilities in Apache CouchDB and managing the
process of fixing such vulnerabilities. We cannot accept regular bug reports
or other queries at this address. All mail sent to this address that does not
relate to an undisclosed security problem in the Apache CouchDB source code
will be ignored.

If you need to report a bug that isn’t an undisclosed security vulnerability,
please use the bug reporting page.

Note that all networked servers are subject to denial of service attacks,
and we cannot promise magic workarounds to generic problems (such as a client
streaming lots of data to your server, or re-requesting the same URL
repeatedly). In general our philosophy is to avoid any attacks which can
cause the server to consume resources in a non-linear relationship to the
size of inputs.